Feb 20 2008Get Green: Build Your Own Hobbit House

wow, that is amazing! interior looks awesome too

I was sold up until the "compost toilet." I'm not big into night soil. What good is a house that smells like fecal matter? I'd do it all but I'd leave that part out, making a water closet a bit away from the main foundation or getting real plumbing. Otherwise though, very neat.

Hobbits dont have houses, they have holes. And this is not a Hobbits hole, the door should be circular and well... check this :) http://www.ourhobbithole.com/

@3 please just stop, put down the computer and walk away no one cares.

I agree with 2 and I'd probably live there being it looks cool as shit but smelling like shit just doesn't go well in my book. I'm not into the whole 'green' crap but this is a heck of a maintenence free house

Have to agree on the compost toilet. A septic tank and a toilet system using rain water would be fine. This is my favorite house ever.

I love it. Do you think you could even get away with building one of these in the US? I'd love to do this sort of thing, but wouldn't the city come in and make me follow some sort of building codes? How did they get to do this?

I am curious of that to. This looks like fun :).

i'm not actually sure what a compost toilet is (i can assume), but i'm quite sure that the people, after going through the effort of building this entire house, would have done something to combat a permanent shitty smell from the toilet. no?

Actually, I was about to say what #3 said: the door should really be round. It just isn't right without the round door. AT ALL.

Hey I'm 5'1. I can totally fit in that. I can just walk around without bending over.

I'm like 5'6", I could live like a king in there!

This is sweet as hell.
I went and checked out the guys website too, all very interesting. It almost makes me wish I was a hobbit except for the fact that I don't wish I was a hobbit at all.

In two years, he'll be living with termites.

Incredible! We need more pictures and info!!

@13
In Wales? Unlikely.

Rotten straw under the floodboards that he'll have to dig out manually and a leaky roof are possible though.

WOW is that for real, beats my trailer hands down. for all u townies, the compost bog doesnt smell if done properly. Cud i make it so inconcpicuous that i cud find any random hill and build it, cud start another origanal dollys dump, but underground.

I thought this was great so I posted a link on living green section of our social Site. It was too fun to pass up. http://getsmartbusiness.ning.com/

This, or something very close to this, is something we should all be getting into. Sustainable buildings like these are what the future has to comply to . I live in an eco-sustainable house like this with a sort of compost toilet system and it is quite true that if you do it right you wont even smell it at all. The waste gets filtered through the ground over a matter of years and reused. Our entire water system is based on the rainwater we collect, the tapwater is filtered, used tapwater and showerwater is then put into the toilet and then sent out to the compost system. As for having to cut off your legs to get in, you can really build the ceilings quite high. I'm 6'0 and there is still 3ft of space between me and the ceiling. As for leaking the plastic sheets that are used are quite durable and set up properly to stream water away from any sort of flooding problem. Certain straws are invincible to mold and will never rot if contained in the right manner. Hope this clears some things up.

Here's a whole community of hobbit houses!

my husband and I live in the Texas hill country and have started to dig in the side of the hill to build a 8' by 10' hang out area and storage on our property. I think its very cool. Reminds me of the cabins in Bastrop state park they have to rent out.

that is the collest house ever and it is so cool that you love the enviorment so much that you would build a eco friendly house as cool as that one. i was also wondering how do you have electric if you pretty much live under ground and why is your tolite outside what happens if anyone sees you going to the bathroom and also one more question about the cool house when you go to the bathroom out side where does all of the waste go ? down a hole or are you just smart?

cooles house ever

sincerly dejah williams 14 years old

We r building 2. A 30' with 10x12 side exstension ."Dome" n a tiny "cabin" on sep. land. Floor 9x5 1/2. sleeping n cooking ledges to side of floor. Made for 2-3. IN diert. 30 2 b earth COVERD. Wife n I LOVED this home n decided "y not?" TNKS! FUN BUILDING THEM. U can TOO...GO 4 IT! re

I want to know all about how u design the house, pitfalls, perks. And basically if I wanted to do the same, give me a starting point. Also send me to more sites like this to obtain more info. please.....Home looks amazing

Untreated wood will rot, walls that are next to dirt can have the moisture from the ground lech right through. In a wet climate the entire place would smell of rot in a mater of days. There are reasons for most building codes, and a correct way to do everything. That and how many people have enough land that they can go out and chop down enough trees to do this?

hey, I stumbled across you site and noticed the AWSOME hobbit house. I just was on this persons site and I love it. I also read some of the reviews and am going to agree that he will have trouble in the future but so what. its green and friendly, andI love it. I wish I had the spot and money to build one of my own cuz i'd do it in a heart beat. I love the outdoors and would build it for my cabin or somthing. anyways love it !

Who needs to live like a Hobbit when we can live like Dwarves in Coober Pedy